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Do you think the surge worked? Care to watch a video from Baghdad?

August 5, 2008 By John Tehan

Part 2:  Killing Fields Part 3:  Iraq's Lost Generation Chilling words at the end, and I have to agree - the real tragedy of Iraq is what will unfold when this generation grows up... … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: iraq, iraq-war, shia, sunni, surge

We interrupt this political campaign silly season for a needed reality slap

August 3, 2008 By hlpeary

If you only read one article in the Globe today, make it this one: http://www.boston.com/news/loc... Kevin Cullen is a gift. He shakes us awake and brings us back to the point. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: iraq, kevin-cullen

Vets For Freedom NewsLadder Is Up. It’s Fair And Balanced (Really).

July 23, 2008 By james-boyce-and-dave-johnson

We'd like to introduce the Vets for Freedom NewsLadder. Like all the NewsLadders that are up and running, this is a great place to find out all about an issue on one site with articles, blog posts, and videos linked up and voted up or down … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: iraq, mccain-vets-for-freedom, news, newsladder, politics, veterans, vets-for-freedom

The Kurds offer a problem our troops can’t solve

July 16, 2008 By sabutai

McCain has heralded the recent dip in American casualties as proof that what we're doing over there is working.  A conservative chorus regularly repeats that claim.  Insofar as our mission in Iraq is soldiers not dying, we are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: iraq

ACLU goes to court in Boston to fight government ban on scholar

June 24, 2008 By ACLUm blog

The Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights and the Massachusetts Chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee have jointly invited Professor Adam Habib to be the keynote speaker at an event on August 5, 2008, because of his … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: aclu, first-amendment, free-speech, ideological-exclusion, iraq, national, terror

Why I Created The Purple Dog Tag To Help Our Wounded Troops And Veterans.

June 19, 2008 By ronlawner

I am not a political person by nature and I am hardly partisan in my belief that the men and women who wear the uniform of our country should, above all, be taken care of to the fullest extent of our ability when wounded in action. It's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: afghanistan, iraq, post-tramatic-stress-disorder, purple-dog-tag, veterans-for-america, wounded-soldiers

Please Join Me In Welcoming My Friend Iraq Vet And Congressional Candidate Jon Powers To Boston.

June 17, 2008 By jamesboyce

Now, it is not my practice to push fundraisers for out of town politicians, but this is personal for me on a couple of levels. First of all, Jon Powers is exactly the type of person we need representing us in Washington, and I mean us in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: congress, iraq, veterans

Bush’s plan to continue the war. Impose a “strategic alliance” on Iraqi gov.

June 5, 2008 By raftery

Patric Cockburn reports in The Independent (London) "Bush wants 50 military bases, control of Iraqi airspace and legal immunity for all American soldiers and contractors" "A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bush, iraq, permanant-bases

Onward In Iraq

June 2, 2008 By smalltownguy

Left the house early, got back late, so it was after 7 p.m. that I looked at the Boston Globe ("Owned by Moguls; Written by Interns TM"). Kevin Cullen's column in City/Region beckoned. Cullen is the latest of the phony … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston-globe, election-2008, iraq, kevin-cullen

Quick hits

May 28, 2008 By Charley on the MTA

Rep. Markey proposes 85% reduction in CO2 by 2050 with a cap-and-trade program. Auctioning pollution credits would raise $8 trillion for renewables in that time. Wow.It's my impression that Sen. Kerry is likely to support the flawed … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: 10th-suffolk, environment, global-warming, iraq, julian, kerry, markey, mike-rush, oceans, patrick, police-details, therese-murray

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